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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.tacom.army.mil!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting w/o video... Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 01:01:47 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 12 Message-ID: <312447FB.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <31211B80.6819@vianet.com.mx> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: "Alejandro Vázquez C." <avazquez@vianet.com.mx> Alejandro Vázquez C. wrote: > > Is any way of booting freebsd without a video card?... Yes, but you need to install special boot-blocks on the machine. Look in /sys/i386/boot/biosboot and build yourself a set of boot blocks with FORCE_COMCONSOLE defined, then install them. The machine will now come up ALWAYS assuming a serial console, and any VGA card present will be ignored. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project